The fight to kill the A-10 Warthog rages on in Washington after the U.S. Air Force tried to sneak-retire the incredibly useful attack jet following a failure to get Congressional approval to end it outright. Now the Air Force’s shell game includes a potential A-10 replacement, dubbed the A-X.
Russia and the Assad regime have been tightening the noose around the sprawling and long embattled northwest Syrian city of Aleppo, creating a whole new surge of refugees escaping the violence. Today Russia also claimed USAF Warthogs bombed the city which is supposedly devoid of ISIS fighters while also warning of…
This A-10 gives a couple of light airplane pilots an awesome up-close and personal demonstration while attending the 2011 Toronto Air Show. Maybe the best part of the video is the audio, hearing how stoked those bush pilots are over the awesome ringing sound of the ‘Hog’s twin TF-34 turbofans doing their thing at full…
Reports state that Boeing is looking at reselling refurbished and upgraded A-10s, many of which may be idiotically orphaned by the USAF, to foreign countries. Although it sounds intriguing, the idea to offload the A-10 to allies is really nothing new. I pitched it years ago.
After countless high-energy and breathtaking videos showing fighter jets going about their business, the A-10 Warthog finally received a similar treatment. The unwanted and misunderstood ‘Hog, at least when it comes to the USAF’s perspective, shines in this video which has to be the best A-10 video of all time.
F-35 pilot Major John Wilson said the obvious in an interview with Danish aviation reporters; the F-35 will never be as good as the A-10 at close air support. This 100 percent factual, non-news statement set off a string stupid news stories. Tomorrow’s headline: a dump truck will never be as good of a sports car as…
The Air Force's unappreciated close air support jet, the A-10 Warthog, may be best known for plinking tanks with missiles and bombs and shredding enemy positions with its GAU-8 Avenger 30mm cannon, but one of its most important and dangerous missions is Combat Search and Rescue, otherwise known as CSAR.
The USAF's leadership wants the A-10 Warthog retired seemingly at all costs. Now it appears that USAF went far beyond broken logic and used-car salesmanship to make their anti-Warthog case, cooking the books and apparently putting an informal gag order on officers that may otherwise tell the truth about the jet's…
As we reported months ago, while fighting for its life here at home, the A-10 has once again been sent to do America's low-down and dirty work. In this case, fighting ISIS in Iraq, a job no other aircraft in the world is better designed to do. Now, with video coming out of from the front lines showing an A-10 making a…
The A-10 has caught a temporary reprieve from a one-way trip to the bone-yard. This is great news considering we are in a fight of unknown duration against a foe that is perfectly suited for the A-10's abilities. This video gives us a good look at what it is like in the cockpit and on the ground as the mighty 'Hog…
Soon, there will be more to the A-10's original "Thunderbolt" moniker than just a name. Everyone's favorite down and dirty chariot of destruction is going geek and soon will be receiving thunderbolts instead of throwing them. A single surplus Warthog is currently undergoing transformation into the ultimate storm…
The USAF has been trying to kill the A-10 for as long as the Warthog has been in service. Part of this effort saw the A-10's huge GAU-8 Avenger 30mm cannon shrunk down into a pod that could be carried by sexier fighters, primarily the F-16. The results of which were far from impressive...
The fact that the USAF is so willing to throw away 300 of the finest close air support platforms ever invented just to save the cost equivalent of 30 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters is total bullshit and both the American taxpayer and those who bravely fight our wars on the ground should be furious.
